CHRIS BANGS

Thin Air Productions - releases

Chris Bangs' production company and jazz cd label acts as a breeding ground for unsigned UK soul and jazz talent and has had extensive success with product being released in the United States , Japan and across most of Europe too . Here's a list of our releases .

Thin Air 12" single
Quiet Boys feat Camelle Hinds - Everybody Loves the Sunshine TAPR 101

Thin Air Albums
TAPR 102        Yada Yada - Piktures  ( DJ vinyl edition - deleted )
TAPR 103        Yada Yada - Piktures
TAPR 104        Sambada - Tropical
TAPR 105        Out of Thin Air ( DJ vinyl edition )
TAPR 106        Out of Thin Air - Various Artists
TAPR 107        Back 2 the Beat - Various Artists
TAPR 108        SoundscapeUK - Smooth with a Groove
TAPR 109        Quiet Boys - Dazzle ( ultra edition reissue )
ULTR 1001       Anthea - Words and Beats ( now issued on Hed Kandi )
MELO 54321      Yada Yada - Fingalikkin' Good

By 1995 Chris Bangs and Mick Talbot had worked together with Galliano, The Quiet Boys and Workshy had established a pretty good musical connection and started to work together at Chris's studio on tracks that were eventually to become "Subculture" by Yada Yada. A first release came of the track "The Journey Within" on the Wall Of Sound compilation"Give Em Enough Dope" and when the album was released on UK label 2 Kool met with immediate success and the album also got released in USA, Japan, Germany and Italy.

The 9 original tunes were a fusion of styles and sounds taking Mick's influences from back in the day and mixing it up with the trip hop vibe of Chris' The 13th Sign album project on Delancey Street Records.

Mick and Chris both felt the project had worked well gaining excellent international reviews and compilation licenses and radio plays in the UK and USA. This led to the subsequent albums 'Piktures' and 'Fingerlikkin Good' and the creation of 2 identities in USA both as Yada Yada and the reformatted versions of  Soundscape UK who secured a no.2 radio hit in USA with 'Morning Song' which was especially recorded for that project.

Columbia Records Artist Vanessa Quinones better known as Espiritu cut an album called "Always" in 1994. Chris Bangs met with Vanessa and after a productive meeting she invited Chris to contribute producing 3 songs on her album Take My Hand ( which he co-wrote ), Sex, Sin and Sun ( that track should have been in a TV ad )  and Carnaval.

Always was a really nice album with Nellee Hooper producing the superb Manifesto and No Creo Mas. Bangsy's tracks were a bit more 'Jazz Brasil' in style with guest appearances from Mick Talbot on piano and Moog Prodigy, Nigel Price on guitars, Gary Spacey - Foote on flute and Stephen Jefferies on Fender Rhodes.

The album never got put out by Columbia but did well in Japan , well worth checking out!!